Here's a discussion on stack overflow with more hints ... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19226816/how-can-i-view-the-source-code-for-a-function
... and a link to an R-News article by Uwe Ligges on the topic http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-4.pdf (p. 43 f) Cheers, Boris On May 6, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) <wolfgang.viechtba...@maastrichtuniversity.nl> wrote: > Probably these are non-exported functions. Try: > > getAnywhere(<function name>) > > Or if you know which package a function comes from: > > <package name>:::<function name> > > Best, > Wolfgang > > -- > Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Ph.D., Statistician > Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology > School for Mental Health and Neuroscience > Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences > Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616 (VIJV1) > 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands > +31 (43) 388-4170 | http://www.wvbauer.com > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ronald >> Kölpin >> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 17:00 >> To: r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: [R] Looking up the code for a function >> >> Hi all, >> >> I am trying to find out how a certain functionality is implemented in R >> respectively what a certain found does exactly. >> >> Specifically I am interested in multivariate kernel density estimation. >> I found the "ks" package and its "kde" function. Usually, my preferred >> way to "look under the hood" of any function is to simply type the >> functions name without any brackets or arguments, in this case just: >> kde. And this works fine for kde itself. But kde calls other functions, >> such as kde.grid.3d or kde.points and typing those function names just >> yields "Error: Object '[function name]' not found". These functions >> aren't defined within kde either (as far as I can see). >> >> So here is my question: Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to >> look up the code of these functions? >> >> (I already tried google but found only the usual documentation >> (vignettes) and articles referencing the function kde or the package ks). >> >> Thanks a lot in advance >> and kind regards >> >> RK >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- >> guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
